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MSOE students make their dreams real every day. With each class, with each lab, our students change the world in which we all live. Our hands-on lab experiences and challenging curriculum prepare our students for their bright futures and the future of the world.

MSOE wants applying to college to be an exciting moment. Share your information, click submit on the application and then wait with anticipation. We are here every step as you begin the journey to the next phase of your life – we know it is going to be amazing!

Staying involved is a big part of campus life at MSOE. From volunteer groups to intramural sports, activities and organizations give students opportunities to meet new people, develop their social and business skills or discover their new hidden passion.

In addition to finding the calendar in the Academic Catalogs, it helps to know that MSOE's academic calendar revolves around Thanksgiving.

If you want to look ahead three years and know when final exams will be scheduled, you can simply find the calendars that straddle that academic year, let's say, 2016-17. Locate Thanksgiving 2016. That week is the break between fall and winter quarters. The week before that will be finals week for Fall 2016. If you count back 11 weeks from Thanksgiving week, you can find out when the first day of classes will be in Fall 2016.

Then count forward 10 weeks from Thanksgiving week, remembering that we get two weeks off for Christmas and New Year. That takes you through winter quarter. The 11th week will be finals week. The following week would be our break between winter and spring quarters.

Final exams in Spring 2017 will be either 11 or 12 weeks out from that break, depending on where Memorial Day falls. Spring Quarter has to be finished by Memorial Day because summer classes begin the day after. If the calendar allows a break at Easter, then we get the week after Easter Sunday off. If a week off would push Spring Quarter final exams past Memorial Day, though, then we don't get a break.

Maybe it's usually easier to find the Academic Catalog and look the calendar up, but this is how I've always figured out dates when I'm at the dentist's office trying to schedule appointments months into the future.

MSOE is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (800) 621-7440, (www.ncahlc.org). Additional program accreditation includes the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, Engineering Technology Accreditation Commission of ABET, American Council for Construction Education (ACCE), and Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) and Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP).